The U.K. also has assumed a leadership role with incentives and funding to support
early market traction and education.
«If they don't have the product and
some early market traction, they're not going to get very far in the funding anyway,» he says, «so the best thing they can do to work on their funding is work on the product.»
Not exact matches
You'll focus on getting
early traction and figuring out the channel (s) offering you the biggest bang for your
marketing efforts.
Startups are constantly tackling problems, big and small — determining product -
market fit, developing
traction and
early adopters, hiring the right talent, raising money (and figuring out how to spend that money)-- but the key is figuring out which ones matter most to the company's leaders at any given point in time.
The stock
market then steadied into the
early afternoon, even gaining some
traction as the session moved along.
The Build Accelerator is a startup accelerator program focused on
early revenue startups, those who have progressed beyond the idea phase with initial
market traction, and are developing the entrepreneurial skills required to grow the company with a strong emphasis on sales and
marketing at scale.
The certification group, who denied requests for comment for this story, has been gaining
traction since its
early adoption by natural retailer Whole Foods
Market in 2011.
Splenda, also known as sucralose, is another calorie - free artificial sweetener that entered the
market in 1999, and gained lots of
traction in the
early 2000's.
Infinitrak, the US - based joint venture company owned by transmission innovation specialist Torotrak and outdoor power equipment (OPE)
market leader MTD (
earlier post), has developed a new epicyclic drive that replaces gears with
traction spheres running in prescribed tracks, combining the functionality of a thrust bearing and an epicyclic drive stage.
While iPad shipment totals are beginning to slow a bit in mature
markets where the device saw
early traction, growth in other regions is clearly more than making up the difference.»
While it is too
early to tell how much
traction tablets will gain among potential buyers, analysts say the state of technology is such that there might finally be the right mix of applications, hardware and mobility available to make tablet PCs more than just a niche device in an already - crowded
market, with gadgets designed to deal with almost any computing a person may need.
However, looking at each concept individually may provide some
earlier clues with respect to
market traction and the delivery of customer value.»
HTC's position as an
early pioneer in consumer VR affords it the opportunity to move to an upper - class position in the
market where it can justify somewhat higher margins while newcomers such as Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality hardware partners scramble to gain
traction in the more - affordable VR segment where competition is getting tough.
AlphaCode is the fintech investment arm of Rand Merchant Investment Holdings (RMI) with the mandate to invest in
early - stage fintech businesses that have achieved
market traction and are poised for rapid growth.
Investors are seeking to gain
traction early in a
market where gains may well be sizeable.